Chinese Malaysians & good education

Over at Malaysia-Today, RPK posted The Fake Ashes Of Chin Peng, where he has written that (I've edited it for brevity):

DAP knew that Pakatan Harapan was going to lose the Tanjung Piai by-election just days after the announcement of the by-election. In fact, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also knew his party, PPBM PRIBUMI, was going to get wiped out. But DAP and Mahathir estimated they were going to lose by a majority of between 2,000 and 7,000 votes. They never expected it to be as high as 15,000 votes.

And it was 15,000 votes because DAP could not get 97% of the Chinese votes like in the last general election in May 2018.

MCA Wee Jeck Seng won the Tg Piai by-election by a landslide, with a humongous majority of 15,000+ 

So, DAP needed a “common cause” to reunite the Chinese. And what better way to do that than to play the “them” and “us” card — them the Malays and us the Chinese. And there was no surer way of getting back Chinese support than by exploiting the siege mentality where the Chinese are victims of Malay aggression.

It is actually a very brilliant idea. If they bring, or rather smuggle, Chin Peng’s ashes into Malaysia and two months later, just after the Tanjung Piai by-election, announce it as a fait accompli, the government cannot do anything about it. However, if they first seek permission or announce it beforehand they would be stopped. Telling the world after the ashes has been scattered would leave the government powerless.

The plan succeeded. Now, because of the Chin Peng’s ashes controversy, the Chinese are again behind DAP.

Six years ago, Mahathir said he opposes the idea of bringing Chin Peng’s body or ashes back to Malaysia. Today he is not against it. Why?

Why is because Mahathir has been told that the ashes are not Chin Peng’s ashes. It is a ruse or scam meant just to trigger Malay outrage. Chin Peng’s “ashes” will reunite the Chinese behind DAP so that the disaster of the Tanjung Piai by-election will never be repeated or duplicated in GE15 expected around 2023 or so.

How ironical that Chin Peng’s “ashes” is being used to save DAP’s arse. Finally Chin Peng has done something useful for the Chinese, although he is doing it long after he died. Chin Peng has at last succeeded in what he tried to do for so long but failed. And that is to unite the Chinese under a common cause, even though Chin Peng had nothing to do with it and it was merely a DAP ruse.

I of course differ with above, and wrote a comment at Malaysia-Today to say (again edited/amended/enhanced to improve on my hastily written one at Malaysia-Today but the thrust of the contents remains the same):

My personal belief is that it is the issue of good education (half past six types not counted) available for Chinese Malaysians that will determine the Chinese support for a political party, rather than the return of Chin Peng's ashes.

As for the legend of Chin Peng, most middle-age and older Chinese actually don't like or fear Chin Peng for his and CPM's guerrilla nuisance, which had then destabilised the nation in many aspects, at least for a while. The Chinese derogative term for the CPL was (is?) "snua3 gniow1 chu4" (mountain rats).

Chinese Malayan-Malaysians wanted/want good economy and business thus a stable nation (without the CPM) would be good. It's only the younger Chinese who in their idealistic and hero-worshipping gullibility and who haven't lived under Emergency conditions-restrictions-dangers, see Chin Peng as a romantic Chinese 'Che Guevara', wakakaka.

If Mahathir had NOT reneged on the 1989 Hat Yai Peace Accords and allowed Chin Peng to return to Malaysia in the first place, he (Chin Peng) would have been forgotten by now. Instead Mahathir in his capati-risation of the Treaty (for his own political enhancement) unwittingly turned Chin Peng into a heroic legend, a victim of Ketuanan Melayu, thus deserving of sympathy and support, wakakaka.

I neither condemn nor praise Chin Peng but we must acknowledge he was quite a significant Personality in Malayan-Malaysian history and its development as a nation especially in her early stages.

end of Japanese Occupation of Malaya
Britain awarded Chin Peng the 'Order of the British Empire' (O.B.E) 

Rashid Maidin, Chin Peng, Chin Tien in Baling Talks 

Baling Talks 1956

(CM S'pore) David Marshall (with pipe), (CM Fed of Malaya) Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tan Cheng-Lock (father of Tan Siew Sin)
At the Peace Talks, Chin Peng said it was because Tunku was not "the spokesman of the British Government or the running dog of the British Government" that they were prepared to meet them in Baling at risk to their lives

Wonder what would have happened to Chin Peng if Mahathir was then CM of the Federation of Malaya? Wakakaka    

On affordable good education for Chinese Malaysians, TAR UC is considered by them as an accessible college educational facility, one that is available to their expectations-demands for their children's education as most national type like MARA is closed to them while others may be unaffordable.

While TAR UC is NOT the prime or only desired educational issue for Chinese Malaysians, it is currently an interesting one which has been highlighted because MCA has cleverly weaponised TAR UC into a dagger aimed at the DAP's heart (its support base), post-GE14.

DAP currently is on the defensive against MCA's attacks because of funding for TAR UC, which has eventually scared the poo out of an initially arrogant, vindictive and undeniably stupid Lim GE - stupid because of his blissful arrogant naivety and unawareness of the dangers of a Chinese politician eff-ing around with a Chinese Malaysian 'sacred cow', to wit, good education.

But eventually, perhaps after having being advised by his far more intelligent compatriots, he buckles and gives it, but nonetheless still drags his heels to save face, where he states (his last minute hold on and hope for his 'face', wakakaka) that funding for TAR UC will be given but not through MCA. He mentioned an independent group, one of TAR UC's smaller alumni group that is friendly to the DAP.

But MCA, sensing blood like a voracious shiver of Tiger sharks, continues to unrelentingly put the pressure on Lim GE (and DAP), thus Lim GE's "concession" has not been the 'silver bullet' he had hoped for to neutralise the MCA's attacks.

sharks feeding frenzy on sensing blood 

Additional bad news for Guan Eng, is that the Chinese Malaysians' perception of him as a Mahathir's macai-tool cum an unfriendly ungrateful un-Chinese Finance Minister has been slowly but gradually coagulating. Alas, Guan Eng today is less idolised than he was a year or two back.

But Lim GE, due to his notoriously innate arrogance and 'cannot-be-wrong' childish mentality, is still far too proud to lift his silly conditions for the funding. But I reckon when push comes to shove, the grassroots in DAP will turn against Lim GE.

Nothing stirs Chinese Malaysians as the issue of good education for their children. Indeed, education has been the central pillar of Chinese culture for several thousand years. It allowed/allows poor Chinese to lift themselves out of the murkiness of destitution, impecuniousness and hopelessness, like a Lotus bursting forth from the grimy muddy pond into a glorious bloom above the surrounding scum.

Hence the Chinese has a saying to describe a poor man/women becoming well-off and prosperous through educational-professional qualifications (words to the effect): Blooming like a Lotus.

Will that MCA-weaponised TAR UC saga crush Lim GE?

I think so - sooner or later - because he can't stubbornly wage war and ever hope to win against the Chinese Malaysians with their 3 to 4 thousands years DNA with an innate desire for good education for their children, wakakaka, unless he wants to commit political suicide.

Ah Eng, Ahok was far more intelligent yet he went on to makan nasi kari kosong

For DAP grassroots, they wish "sooner" the Guan Eng's 'face' crumbles, the better it will be for the party, but for MCA, they hope it will be "later", wakakaka.